The short film, '3 Miles East' by Samuel Karow of Marshfield, plays at New Visions Gallery during the Central Wisconsin Film Festival in 2012.

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Chris Jones
| Stevens Point Journal Media

Theater screens throughout the region will show independent movies today and Saturday for the eighth annual Central Wisconsin Film Festival.

Participating venues will display short and feature-length films produced by local artists and from some as far away as Spain. The festival is intended to give people a chance to see films that would otherwise be exclusive to indie lounge theaters in larger metropolitan markets.

"That's something that a lot of more urban communities have access to like Milwaukee, Madison, the Twin Cities (and) Chicago," said Elizabeth Aguillera, executive ...